This article is turning into a discussion of several theorists, mostly not in literature, who say race is constitutive of modernity. If race is constitutive of modernity, there are definite limits to the liberal critique of racism, and hierarchies based on race may be made invisible but will not go away. If Latin America is … More That discerning eye
I am looking for and at my old abstracts and unfinished and abandoned articles and chapters. I do not like to do this because of the circumstances under which I abandoned each one; I do not want to be reminded. Now, however, under a mandate not to succumb to recriminations, “why did you not,” and … More How (and how not) to work
1. Find abandoned Cecilia paper, and put it in Lyx. 2. Write Cottrol back. This is to be collegial so it is a formality but actually, what I have to say about his book I am going to also use as part of my text. 3. Go running or work out somehow. 4. Work on … More Plan for Tuesday
This is just from Wikipedia but one could use the schedule and modernize it. A New Yorker might have: lemon juice and water, yoga, breakfast, a morning of writing, lunch, reading the news, an afternoon of research, the gym, dinner, a concert, relaxation, and sleep. The prince under consideration, better treated than Christian VII of … More A 15th century day of study
Because they are terrified preachers: fire and brimstone, how bad the world is; because they are grand inquisitors. Because they are unrelenting torture victims; because they are lying in vats of burning oil, and stretching out their hands to pull us in. Because they will not be satisfied until we join them in death and … More I dislike professors…
We have MOOC fever here. Undine has unearthed commentary from Babbit. It is a must-read. Axé.
“She has an uncanny ability to filter my ideas through her own and make me see what I am really doing.” –Jonathan (most recently). Discuss. This is actually a comment I have gotten several times on student evaluations. It is also the reason people in other disciplines sometimes name me in acknowledgements on the basis … More On interpretation
Modernism in literature is (often) the effort of a national elite to develop a theory of national identity that is both modern and traditionalist, that negotiates claims of exceptionalism / universality. Modernism is distinctively peripheral, not prototypically metropolitan, in that it is interested in those romantic notions of identity that are more distinctive around the … More Wir sind soweit
3-9 work on a class, six hours, category teaching, and that is it. On the theory of touching research every day, I hereby commit to read something useful starting at 11 PM, one hour, category research, making this a seven hour day which is respectable. I have some service I really must do soon. Six … More Work Monday
Sunday: six hours, about three each on research and teaching Saturday: five hours, about three on research and two on service and housekeeping Friday (day off): one hour, research Thursday: nine hours, eight on teaching and consulting, one on research Wednesday: six hours, five on service and housekeeping and one on research Tuesday: eight hours, … More Work tracking weekend
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